Spring and Easter with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Veterinary

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thirteen ten, Do wuib A and ask the experts. Brought
to you by check Out Veterinary Join this morning by
doctor Marty Greer. Of course, doctor Greer is recognized as
Veterinarian of the Year from the Westminster Kennel Club. You
can learn more about doctor Greer and can learn more
about Checkout Veterinary all on their website. Checkout vet dot com.
That's checkout vet dot com. Really good website if you

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haven't been there before. Kind of explains all the great
things that make check out vets so unique, so specially
and what a great place to take your pet again.
You can learn more online checkout vet dot com. Great
data start that relationship. Pick pone Gemmacall six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred and I understand sometimes
phone numbers can be hard to remember. If you go

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on over to the website checkout vet dot com, the
phone number is right there for you. It's super convenient
to get to ride in sun Prairie at twenty seven
to ten Prairie Lakes drive the clinic just off the Interstate,
right off the highway. There again, no matter where you are.
You're just moments away from Checkout Vet and they are
there for you and your pet Monday through Wednesday, Friday
through Sunday nine until five. You say, well, what about

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what about Thursdays? Well, Monday through Friday, check in Vet.
The sister clinic of Checkout Vet is there, so they've
got you seven days a week. Also clinics in Marshall
and other locations across the state as well. As a
matter of fact, doctor great to talk with you this
morning and mentioned the Marshall Clinic and something that I
learned from you, and maybe people aren't aware of this
is those those you know, those community clinics, those smaller

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clinics unfortunately are going by the wayside, and you were
able to do something great, which is keep the Marshall
clinic up and running when the previous vet there was
retiring and it's kind of stepping away. Having a clinic
like that in that community is a really great benefit,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
It is because we have people that live in town,
they can't drive out of town. They may not have
a vehicle or may have the capability of driving out
of town. So we want to keep those small communities
veterinary clinics available because access to care is really important
to me. I want people to be able to get
in seven days a week. I want people to have
access to care. I want people to have affordable care.
And that's all very difficult to do, but it's it

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requires a really dedicated staff, and I want all of
our clients to be aware of how dedicated the people
are that work for us. It's very exciting. We will
be seven days a week at the Drive to really soon.
Our two new doctors have started. They started last week
so to get them up and running. Will be available
seven days a week at checkout, five days a week

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at check in, five days a week at Marshall, and
then of course if you're at Marshall or check in
as a client, you have access to it at checkout
because we're there on Saturdays and a Sunday. So I'm
excited about that and I think it's really important. The
Marshall phone number, just to mention this is six zero
eight six five five three nine sixty three, the same
number that they've always had, and we are taking new

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clients and new patients at all of those locations. I
talked to a client the other day from Marshall. She said,
I've lived in Marshall for years, but I could never
get in and I have four dogs and two cats
and nobody could say. I'm like, well, you are my
comic client. So we're going to be able to offer
those services. So if you're a new client and you're
feeling like you have a new pet and you can't
get in or you're not able to get the access
to care that you need, please let us know because

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we are going to bend over backwards to make that
happen for you.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's such, it's such so refreshing and great to hear,
and we talk about starting that relationship. It's a great
day again. You can learn more online the website checkout
vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Don't forget
first visit that exam. It is free to you.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Again.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
You can learn more online checkout vet dot com. That's
check out vet dot com. And doctor the other week.
Last week we started a conversation of course, spring is here,
and that means and we get it through the spring
and summer months. Anytime the weather changes, behaviors change, there's
a whole new world of things that present to our pets,
and I just real quick before we get started started

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on some new stuff. Way to put it, you know,
always the always the optimist, always looking on the bright
side before we get to some of some of the
new stuff, and of course looking forward to Eastern other things.
Real quick. Last week we touched on really important things
as far as vaccinations and of course keeping the little
blood sucking critters off your pets. It's really important this

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time of year. We were talking earlier about making an
appointment to see the VAT. It's really important this time
of year that your pets are up to date with
all of their all their vaccines and all their preventative
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, And I think people kind of let it fly
during the wintertime, so this is the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
To get in.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's your heartworm tests onne that usually also includes testing
for line to these aniplasmasas and aerikia, so it's not
just heartworm. It also means taking in a stool sample
and checking to see if there are any intestinal parasites,
so that those are pretty common.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
And this time of year, as you've mentioned, the snow
melts and.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
All the stuff that was in the layers of the
snow I here, and you're spending more time outside. So
when you used to go out and your dog would
go out and you know, make two second trip outside
for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Or an hour. If you go out and cut the
grass and do.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
The gardening and the dog is with you, they're going
to have time to poke around the garden and find things.
I actually talked to a client a few months ago
that had a dog. They moved into a new house
and the dog ended up finding where the previous owner
of the house had been throwing their marijuana. But and
the dog was eating them and came in stone. They

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didn't know what was wrong with it. The second time
it happened, they're like, okay, it's in the yard. We
need to find it, because they couldn't the first time.
Of course, when you go to the emergency clinic with
a dog, it looks like that. They kind of look
at you with squinty eyes and say, mm hmm, sure
it wasn't yours, but it happened. So you know, just
be really watchful because if your dog picks up something,

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you need to get it out of their mouth, whether
it's you know, stick or something toxic or a plant,
or you're not sure what it is, and the faster
you run toward the dog to get it out, the
faster they swallow. So you have to be quick and
you have to be able to exchange it for something
really delicious, So have a treat in your bucket as
an exchange so the dog will start bringing stuff to
you instead of swallowing it. So those are some things

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that you need to really be aware of. And you
know there's there's poop out there in the yard that
the rabbits and the other species of animals have left
in your yard. We often get stool sample results back.
We send them out to a diagnostic lab that has
technicians that are highly skilled that identifying parasites, and they'll
send us back reports and say things like, well, this
dog has coxidia, but it's not a dog cooctidia. The

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dog's been eating it stuff. So it can be rabbit,
it can be deer, it can be bird, and you
know you have to be really careful, and of course
bird fluid it concerns. So we just don't want our
dogs going on eating all that's really.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
The stuffing stuff that dogs think are delicacy.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yes, it's funny that they and they sure do. And
that's that is as you talk about two about how
quick the dog can be as well when it comes
to getting them out for a walk and if they
if that nose ces in on something, that mouth is
right behind. So yeah, really important to do that. And also,
I know we only think of it generally. I'll stereotype

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pet owners like myself, we tend to think about this
stuff this time of year. But the reality is most
of this stuff is things that we should be definitely
queuing in on year round.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh yeah, it's just that there's more exposure and increase
in exposure this time of year because of the change
of the season. So yeah, it is all year round,
but it does kind of ebb and flow when you.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Have to be more concerned.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
So this is definitely recent to be concerned. And it's
the time of year you start gardening, and you start
putting fertilizer and need killers and exercides down in the
yard and in the garden, and you're digging up things
and planting things, and so those are just opportunities.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
For the dog to be exposed.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
The things that they weren't exposed to in like this
ever January February, Yeah, that's not happening, but now it is.
So you want to be very watchful and careful and
read the labels on the products that you're putting down,
and look at the bulbs and see if what you're
planting is taughtic. You know, just be really aware of
what you're doing because it may not always be pet safe,
and you want your garden in your heart to be

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as act safe as possible so the dogs can go out.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
And have a good time.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary,
the website check out vet dot com. That's checkout vet
dot com taking new patients right now. It's a great
day to start that relationship. More vets coming on board
at check out vet as we speak. What a really
really cool thing that is. Is a great day to
make that appointment. Tell for number six. So eight three
one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty

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seven hundred for Checkout Veterinary again. Learn more online check
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doctor Before we came on the air, of course, Easter's
coming up, and you had mentioned a couple of really
important things for the Easter holiday first off, of course,
a lot of us get those easter lilies. They look beautiful,
but there is something you want to keep in mind

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if you've got cats, isn't there.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, And interestingly, cats can develop a toxicity to easter
lilies if they eat them. Snipping them not going to
hurt them, but if they eat parts of the leaves
of the flowers that can be toxic.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
It doesn't seem to affect dogs, but any lily.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Lily in your garden, lily in your house, easter lilies included,
it's gonna be toxic. And cats like to chew on
leaves and plants, and that's a big concern. Other some
plants that if your dog, if your cat choose on
the leaves, that's okay, Like there's cat grass, and there's
spider plants, and there's some things you're like, oh, yeah, whatever,
But the easter lily has a toxicity in it and
it will affect their kidneys, so they can go into

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kidney failure from eating those. So if you do get
easter lily, either don't bring them into your house, donate
them to somebody, or put them in a spot that
your cat can't get to, and you may think they
can't get into a place, but they are absolutely amazing
where they can climb up to. I mean I see
cats on top of the refrigerator and you know, so
you have to look around and say where is it

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exactly that's safe. So be really thoughtful about that because
we don't want you on any up in ear with
your cat on IV fluids to treat their kidney problems.
So just avoid that situation.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Great advice.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, yeah. The other thing at Easter is the Easter baskets,
and of course our kids get East baskets. They get
eggs and all the stuff.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
So chocolate.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Everybody knows that there's a toxicity to chocolate, and the
darker the chocolates.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
The bigger the toxicity.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
The number one we have to worry about chocolate in
the Easter basket that should be out for the kiddo.
Number two, if they eat the packaging like the foil
on the Hershey Kisses or the recent peanut butter cups
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Because dogs are.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Not selective, they will just sulpic downhole instead of taking
time to unwrap it.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Some dogs are on wrappers.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Some dogs are golfers, so if they swung the packaging
that can cause them not only irritation in their gut,
but it could potentially.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Cause an obstruction. And the biggest concern I have is
last year.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
And this year I have started to see scented easter
grass that you're supposed to put in the kid's basket. Well,
that's great if you don't have any pets in the house,
but dogs and cats will eat those things. They will
eat long skinny things like pincil on the tree, like
easter basket grass, of the fake plasts of grass, And
if it's scented, you're going to have a dog that's
much more likely to want to go over and eat

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it than if it was just plain plastics. So again,
careful because those long skinny items don't pass through the
intestinal track well and can cause obstructions and placations and
all kinds of terrible things in the gut. So you
want to be really really careful if you're not buying
that because it's like cool, it's new, valid if you

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have a labrador puppy that's going to eat it, So
just think it through before you jump on the oh
that's cool new thing.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm going to ask something that's that's kind of uncomfortable.
I think it's as you were talking about the easter
grass too. It's something that kind of popped in my
head for folks with dogs, where you know, dogs do
their business and let's say they ate a little easter
grass or they got a hair and not everything, you
know when they're doing their business. Yeah, what is the

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what is the guidance for pet owners in that situation?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
So you mean, if it's still attacking, yes, there a
string or grass or hair that having the little dingle berrying.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Delicate.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, the general rule of thumb is to not pull
hard on it. If you can gently pull and remove it,
that's great. If you can't get something to cut it,
a pair of scissors, a pair of garden shears, whatever
is available so that you can cut it and leave
the rest in the intestinal tracks, and then my favorite
trick is to feed can spinach. That will help quite
a bit in getting things to pass. But if the

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dog is vomiting and sick, then that may be something
that's either going to need ivy fluid hospitalization of the
medication to help us to pass.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Or may end up in surgery.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
So you don't want to yank hard on it. If
it's gentle and you can you can slightly pull on it,
but if you're pulling hard on a dog or a cat,
you're potentially going to cut through the intestinal walk really
serious damage. So gentle traction. And then I have some
clients I use can spinach for all kinds of things
that dogs need. Now, it's not going to pass a
towel on a on a dog's that's two big. It's

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little things like the dog ates, you know, the rappers
that may be an to get it to pass. If
it's little pieces of pea gravel, you know, they chewed
up a ball point pen, they chewed up stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
You can see them.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Can spinach and I see based on the size of
the dog, up to one can twice a day for
a big smaller amounts, and I just feed it until
the stools come out spinach colored and then you know
it went all the way, was in there came.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Out the other end. But if the dog is sick,
if the.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Dog is vomiting, is the cat is vomiting, then you
need to go to the veterinary tonic. Sometimes hospitalization and
ivy fluids will pass it. Sometimes it requires surgical intervention.
Do you want to be thoughtful about what they're exposed to.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
I have some labrador or client breeders, Golden retriever breeders
and not to you know, not to try and.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
You know, put them in too much of the category.
But reality is some of them just feed a can
of spinish every Saturday because they're like, you know what,
I'm sure four or five days he ate something he
wasn't supposed to, and so it just kind of keeps
them moving through.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
So I have a lot of people buying can s finish.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
It needs to be canned fresh spinach.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Frozen spin it doesn't have the same texture.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
There's something about the process thing that makes it dringing,
and colored greens would probably work instead. I have one
client say, well, I have colored greens at home. I'm like, oh,
do means those okay? And colored drinks just dog, I'm in.
But it's not going to be me that's eating that stuff.
So those are some little tips to have at home.

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There's also a medication called Cleavor.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Some veterinarians will dispense its to their clients. Most veterinaries
will use it as a vesterinary.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Clinic, and it induces vomiting with an eye drop. So
I send home packets in this with clients that have
dogs with a known track record of eating what they
shouldn't eat, something that might be toxic or something that
might be a foreign body, and they just put a
dropper to and the dog's eye and the dog goes vomit. Now,
there are certain things you shouldn't make the dog vomit with,

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like caustic things like batteries and bleach, but most of
the time good and using peroxide has some serious risks
with it. I've seen one cat guy see one dog
have a stroke because of peroxide, So it's not innocuous.
Even though every website on the planet says get your
dog peroxide, it'll make a vomit, I've seen too many
side effects from it. So I tend to lean heavily

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on the.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Product called cleb Or.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's c L E v O R cleve Or. It
doesn't make cat vomit, but it makes dogs on it.
Kind of weird that it doesn't work in a cat,
but remember cats are not small dogs and talks about
big cats, so they're different species, are different reactive, react
differently to different things. So cleav Or is the name
of the product to go to your vet, knock on
the door and say can I have someone this or

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do you have it in stock? So if my dog
does something incredibly in bad judgment that you can help me.
Is it?

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer this of check
out Matt and I knew doctor, I'd get to I'd
get the best answer. Thank you for handling that time,
because I was like one, like, what do you do?

Speaker 2 (15:50):
How did I say that?

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (15:52):
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doctor I just some some things that are important that
maybe we don't always think about. I'm talking with our vet.
But these are important conversations to have. Is of course
this time of year. As the seasons change, grooming should
be changing as well for certain breeds, shouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, A lot of people have held off on cutting
the dog's coat shorter for the winter time because it
keeps them a little bit warmer.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
When the sermostats down the house and some things like that.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
You don't want the little dog, you know, the shivering,
so we tend to let their coats grow a little
bit longer. But now that it's spring, a couple of
things happen with longer coat. One is the may get
too warm. Secondly is they're going to drag in mud
and leaves and sticks and all this stuff. So you know,
the dogs are lower to the ground, especially the little ones,
and they drag and stuff and ends up having.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
To be clean after vacuums up in the in the house.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
So it's time to call the groomer get your dog in.
Most people have standing grooming appointments. That's probably the smartest
thing to do because groomers are biddy and it can
be difficult to get an appointment if you're not a regular.
You want their nails trim so they can go out
and do the walks with comfortable feet. You just want
to kind of clean them up all the way around.
It's spring cleaning time and the dog too so and

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some people do that with their cats as well. Most
people leave the cat's quotes as they are, but there
are a few people who have hats the mat Their
coats are just difficult to maintain, so sometimes they go
in and have a lion cut so that the cat
has s fur around their face and fur down their
tail and their lower legs. But the body is short
and it's just easier to keep their coats from matting.
So there's a couple of ways to approach that. It

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is harder to find a groomer to do a cat,
but it is to find a groomer to do a dog.
And if your dog is matted and it happens, I
mean sometimes you know, things get away from you and
the mask happened, especially if some of the doodles and
some of the other breathe with a longer coat that
doesn't shed, and they do have to be shaved down
just because the mass is so close to the pin
and so dense that it can be very painful from

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the dog to have them brushed.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Or combed out. So if your groomor calls you or says.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
When you drop off, I'm gonna have to shave it down,
don't give your rumor a hard time.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Realize that they're doing what's most comfortable for your pets,
and hair grows back.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
So next time the hair is growing in and keep
up with the grooming and then flipping and so forth.
There's a lot of groomors that have concerns about the
doodle's coats matting.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
And I'm not trying to profile anybody or pick on anybody.
That's just what we hear from the groomers. And I'm
not a groomer, so I have to take the rood
for it.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
What about as we talk about grooming and literally doing
some spring cleaning. I know, for you know you're mentioning
their doc about you know you got the out the dog,
spend the time outdoors, coming back home money muddy. I
don't have. My dog is not a big fan of
getting dirty at all. He's very very neat on that,
but he does need baths for time to time just

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to keep them smelling good and feeling good. What's kind
of the guidance on on giving your giving your dog
a bath.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, a dog with normal skin, normal coats should probably
only be bathed a couple of times a year. Now,
grooming dogs are typically groomed every six to eighty so
they're going to get a bath at that frequency. If
your dog has unhealthy skin, if you have a dermatology problem,
allergies or rashes, or you know, infections or any of
those things, and some of those dogs make you be

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bathed sometimes as often as worth a week, so you
really need to rely on your running Mariane tell you
what the frequency of grooming should be if it's more
often than twice a year. So it's the answer is
a good solid It depends. There are medicated shampoos that
can really work well to help with some of those problems.
You don't want to bathe the dog so often.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
That you dry out the coat.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
But you know, if the dog's a little white, fluffy
dog and it sleeps on your pillow, it's different than
the big, you know, one hundred and twenty pounds lab
that may sleep on the foot of the bed or
on the on the side of the bed, on the floor.
So a little bit of that.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Depends on lifestyle.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
It depends on how clean they are, how dirty they are.
They go out and they go swimming and they're in
a pond that they come back just sinky.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Then yeah, yeah, you know they're going in the pub.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
And you know what's really cool and a lot of
people don't know. This is some of the car washings
and you can google to find these in your neighborhood.
Some car washings have dog bathing facilities at them. You
go in, it's got a little bay in between the
garage bath where the cars drive through. You put in
your quarters, It shoots out shampoo. You put in a
little more quarters. It puts out creamer, and you put
in a few more quarters.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
It does the blower and now you've.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Got your dog all cleaned up and it's not in
your bathroom. It's not you know, the dog's not shaking everywhere,
and there's a hair replace. It's pretty great.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
They have those high speed blowers that help loosen up
the coats.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
That are ready to shed because this time of year
dogs start shedding. So even the dogs that don't grow
continuous hair like labs golden. You know a lot of
the breeds that have that kind of coat will start
to shed this time of year. And Fiberian huskies, oh
my gosh, there, Sammy's they're a mess. So it's really
good to be able to go into those places and

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get a good blowing gune so that the dog comes
out clean and smelling good and it's not going to
come home and shuttle over your house. So those are
some tips from people that don't use a groomer or
don't think they need to use a groomer. If you
don't need the hair trimmed, you may be able to
do that.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Of course, nails and you're on.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Your own fre nails. Yes, for sure.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
You've been speaking to of grooming. As you were talking
about dogs, what about cats? And I think obviously if
a cat's got something, you know, they're dirty or they
got something on them, like they got into something. You
may ran into a skunk. That's one thing. But do
do cats require just bathing shampooing? Is that something that
that most like a healthy, normal cat would need or

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what's kind of the guidance there.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, most people either don't be in their cat at
all or maybathe and they're like maybe once a year.
Cats don't really like the water. In most cases, the
few that do, like they'll sit on the side of
the bathtub and you know, hang out while you showering.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Then most of them really don't.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Have any interest in getting in the tub or taking
a bath, so it can be a bit of a battle. Again,
that gets back to maybe you need a groomer for that,
but you're gonna have to call one hundred places before
you find two that will be grooming on cat, so
you know, kind of plan ahead. But they are nice
when they're nice and clean and all the oils are
off the code and all the.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Dander is off.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
So I don't think it's a bad idea to bador
cat once a year, but it's a bit of a trick.
You need to have, like a inside your bathtub. You
want to have a couple of bins of warm water
already set up so you can kind of dunk the cat,
lather them up, dunk them duncum, dunkum, and then let
go because they're going to be out of there. Like,
if you have the bathroom door open, you're not going
to see that cat for several hours. So if you

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try to tell them dry, it better be with the
doors shut because they're gone.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
One thing that you realized too is they're basically they're
a ball of muscle and claws. I mean, yeah, they
are really really great information this morning, as always from
doctor Marty Greer. Don't you can learn more about doctor Greer.
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