Helping Others Pay Their Vet Bills

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White, Doc trainer
Allen Cable, roomer Joey Vallani, communicator Joey Turner, and here
are your hosts, Alie Rooms and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
The dream team all in place, ready to answer your questions,
preferably about your animal. We just had somebody called in
a few minutes ago suspects their wife of cheating on
them and wanted to talk to the animal psychic, who
apparently thinks I guess they think they could ask the
dog whether.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Or not right they've seen anybody anybody strange?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, yes, Unfortunately Joy is not with us here today.
She's still in the hospital.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Maybe maybe you, Joey, maybe you could help this guy out,
help this guy out.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
What do you think I can?

Speaker 6 (00:51):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Absolutely? What do you think the cat's saying?

Speaker 7 (00:54):
I think the cat's saying that he should hang out
on the corner about an hour if they leaves the
house and check out what's going on there, because I
got a feeling someone's coming to the house over minute.

Speaker 8 (01:05):
You said it was a dog first, Now it's a cat,
it's a cat, dog, it's a dog, cat, dog, cat.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Are you looking for holes in my story, mister Cable.

Speaker 8 (01:13):
You know, since a dog can't remember what happened like
thirty seconds before, I don't think it's going to do
you much good to ask him these questions.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
That's why he said, the cat yeah, okay, So.

Speaker 9 (01:24):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (01:25):
Honestly, if anyone's suspecting that somebody's cheating on him, nine
times out of ten they are there's a reason behind that.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
So whatever the cat says, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So if you want to talk to doctor Debbie Today
or dog trainer Ellen Cable, or even dog father Joey Volani,
who will tell you grooming tips as well as communicate
with your pet at the same time, he'll do it.

Speaker 8 (01:45):
And I just can I just tell you, I demand
I demand that people talk with me. I demand it.
As I saw a story on the news last night.
This little terrier you know, saved the owners, you know,
was barking and scared away to the thief, and the
owner's on the TV going, oh yeah, yeah, he was
excited at after he knew it was his house, he
knew he protected us, And I'm like, yeah, what he
knew all that.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Why do you think he didn't know that?

Speaker 8 (02:05):
He doesn't know that. He knows what happens when it's happening,
and then when it's over, he knows. Oh, my owner's
all excited, that's what he knows. He knows. Oh, my
owners all excited. They're all excited. I'm excited. We're all excited.
Why are we excited? He doesn't even know to ask
the question why he's excited. He's just excited because you're excited.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
How long is their memory? I mean do they forget
pretty fast?

Speaker 8 (02:26):
Very fast. I give you a little experiment you can
do to prove my point. Okay, let's take a beagle.
Beagle not the sharpest knife in the drawer. So like,
let's say you take a piece of food right in
front of a beagle, right and you take a coffee
can and you put the food right there on the
floor in front of the beagle's face, and you put
the coffee can over the food. The beagle will instantly

(02:47):
pretty much forget that you did that, and the food
is gone out of side, out of mind, and move
on to sun.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
But what about like a Jack Russell terrier, he can't
do that with the Jack Russell, could.

Speaker 8 (02:55):
You no, no, no, with a smart dog that the
smart dog will just knock the can over with his
pond and get the food. But the beagle will be like,
whoa what what?

Speaker 10 (03:01):
What?

Speaker 8 (03:02):
What was I doing?

Speaker 10 (03:02):
What was I doing? Who are you?

Speaker 5 (03:04):
I want to try that.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now we get lady Bug excited. We just started yelling
and clapping and saying yay, and she just gets all
excited and yeah, sure she doesn't just.

Speaker 8 (03:13):
Don't know what the heck's going on.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
She knows you're excited, so do I. Everyone starts.

Speaker 7 (03:17):
If everyone starts jumping around clapping, you know, I'm smiling,
I'm clapping.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
I don't know, wings clapping, arms waving in the air.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
There I noticed that exactly.

Speaker 8 (03:25):
I demand people call me. I want a happier nation
with happier dogs. Happier dogs start with happier people, smarter people,
and vacation.

Speaker 11 (03:33):
Is this Sean? Yeah, Hi, this is doctor Debbie. Welcome
to the show.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 11 (03:38):
So what can we do for you?

Speaker 6 (03:40):
I have a Jack Russell mixed terrier and we had
him neutered a few months ago, and ever since we
had him neutered, he never used to use a restroom.

Speaker 12 (03:52):
In a house at all.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
But now he's doing number one and number two kind
of like, not in one specific area, just kind of
a little bit of here and everywhere. But so he was.

Speaker 11 (04:03):
House trained, yes, originally house trained.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yes he was, and then we had him neutered and
now he's not. So he was just wondering if the
vet mess something up or just mad or what the
dell is?

Speaker 11 (04:18):
All right, first, I'm gonna ask you how old is he?

Speaker 6 (04:22):
He is about a year and a half.

Speaker 11 (04:25):
Okay, So what made you wait a year and a
half to get him? Mutered?

Speaker 6 (04:29):
If I can ask him, Oh, because we didn't get
him when he was a puppy. We got him when
he was already I don't know, probably close to a
year old. We got him he was just astray, so
we took him.

Speaker 11 (04:39):
In and alrighty, and does he as far as playing
around the house interacting with people? How does he do
if someone new comes to the home, if there's children around, Yes, yes.

Speaker 13 (04:50):
We have a son.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
And I mean he's the loveest dog you ever see.
If they're someone willing to give attentions and he's willing
to jump up on her laps, you know whatever. I mean,
he's a real friendly, lovey dog and to other dogs too.

Speaker 11 (05:04):
Really yeah, And I guess what I'm getting at is
sometimes I mean neutering definitely. You know, I think it's
a great idea that you neutered in because not only
you know the health benefits, but just it removes a
whole issue, a lot of issues. And unfortunately we're talking
about an issue that generally is helped by neutering. The
times that we don't see some helping with problems with

(05:25):
elimination issues can be as if there's something else kind
of underlying the surface. And that's kind of us trying
to probe and figure out because Jack Russell terriers can
tend to be a little dominant little personalities, if you will.
There are little dogs, but they think they're big ones,
and sometimes they like to kind of boss things around
the house. So that's why I was just checking to

(05:46):
see if there was maybe any kind of things where
he takes control of certain furniture, if he nips, heels,
or if he barks successively when people come to the door,
any of those type of things where we might have
maybe an underlying a little bit of a dominant streak
that just for some reason after the neutering has kind
of come to the surface. And the other big things

(06:08):
that I always kind of look back on is after
a nutering experience, we want to make sure that certain
things that we do because of the surgery have not
upset the pets life in any way. Sometimes those cones
that us veterinarians that we like to prescribe post operatively,
they're important, but they can be very peculiar for the dogs,
and that can even develop some behavioral problems. They may

(06:31):
not want to use a doggy door, they may not
walk normally, they may not even eliminate normally. So things
like post operative ecollars and medical collars can be very
troublesome for some pets. So that can actually throw a
wrench in things. And even sometimes some of the post
medications might throw things a little bit out of whack.
So I don't know what exactly started this soft for

(06:52):
your fella, but I'd say the solution is going to
be we're gonna have to treat them like a six
month old puppy. So we're gonna have to actually treat
him like a puppy who does not have house training skills.
And that means to go back to the square one
where we're not going to leave him unsupervised without you around.
That every time we take him outside, and we manually

(07:15):
take him outside, preferably on a leash, to go do
his elimination areas, we praise him excessively, lay it out
really heavy, really thick, and that will work wonders as
a positive reinforcement. But we cannot allow him to have
that free access of the home that he's probably very
comfortable with and that we have come to expect, because
if you do that, you're going to set him up

(07:36):
for failure. So treat him like that little six month
old puppy and you're going to really have to work
hard to get him back to where he was. And
I can't say, I know you said something about, you know,
did the veterinarian do something wrong? And there's really not
anything surgically that I could say would cause this. But
some of those other things that I mentioned, you know,
the cone, the medication, being away from home, some of

(07:59):
those actors can really kind of maybe throw a little
wrench in the system in a household situation. So I'd
see if we can do that and get back to
the basics with housetraining. It, but no quick, easy fix,
So I don't have a quick one for you.

Speaker 12 (08:13):
Sean, Okay, I appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (08:15):
I'd work with your veteriniar because you know, they may
know his personality and may have some other insight and
some chips on what might work best for your situation.
But but yeah, I know it's so hard to take
them back and think of them as a pub because
you've come to trust and allow them certain trust within
the home. So it's a little bit challenging to kind
of remember or to imagine them in that puppy hood

(08:36):
mode where you have to keep them confined or created
and you can't give them that full trust in the home.
But hang in there and you'll get there. This is
doctor Debbie. We are here to take your calls on
your beloved little pet.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
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Speaker 2 (08:50):
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(09:10):
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Speaker 8 (09:13):
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Speaker 4 (09:15):
I should.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, let's do one.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
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She goes on or he This genderless person goes on
to say, I do have a question for the doctor.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Oh great, My cat.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Has been sneezing, sniffling, coughing, gagging, sneezing, reverse sneezing, hair
bow type coughing, and eyes watering. I took her to
the vet and he said it's asthma. But now my
other cat has the same symptoms, so I'm guessing it's
a contagious cold. I have them on a maxacillin and
predno zone, and also I got a vaporizer for them.

Speaker 11 (09:53):
Any ideas, Yeah, definitely I have an idea, and I
would have the idea your dog does not have or
your cat does not have asthma. This definitely sounds infectious
to me. And as far as the first thing that
when I hear a kitty having those kind of problems sneezing, congestion,
runny eyes, coughing. We don't see a lot of sneezing

(10:13):
and runny eyes with asthma. Asthma is a lower airway problem.
So yeah, I would suspect this kitty has a respiratory infection,
and it's usually viral in cats. So I would throw
away that steroid. That is the worst thing we could
do because that actually suppresses the ability to fight infection.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Also it could make it worse.

Speaker 11 (10:31):
It could and in ninety percent of the cases feline
upper respiratory infections are from either herpes virus or Kalisi virus,
So many times we do use an antibiotic if we're
worried they have secondary infection. So I don't think that's
a bad choice, but I think we should be looking
at maybe some things to help the anti viral capacity,
like a lysine supplement. Oh, and definitely like the humidifier,

(10:53):
So keep that up and keep those babies eating heat
canned food. That definitely can help them to find their
food and keep their appetite in face of all that congestion.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
If left untreated, does it just go away eventually? By itself.

Speaker 11 (11:06):
Well, it depends. Some cats can really get quite ill
from an upper respiratory infection because they can't smell, they'll
stop eating, they can get dehydrated, and there is a
form of kleiesivirus which is highly virulent and it can
actually cause death and it can have some severe complications.
So it really depends. Most cases cats will recover with
conservative care, just kind of like us with a cold,

(11:28):
and usually about ten days to two weeks. But it
is very contigious other kitties, so that too in the
history makes me think that these kitties have passed something
back and forth.

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Speaker 16 (13:25):
Are you good?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
What's going on a lot here?

Speaker 17 (13:27):
I have a sister who lives in Argentina. She moved
down there quite a while ago and got married. Anyway,
they have a puppy now to replace, well not replace,
but their other dog died. But anyway, this new puppy
is having problems down there in Argentina. When you have
a puppy that that's recommend that you keep it indoors

(13:47):
for the first three months because there's so much disease
down there, and so they had to have it go
into the bathroom inside. And now they can't get it
to go outside. They had to going on paper inside.
They tried taking the paper out side. And the dogs
out there have down there have to go on the pavement.
They try to train them to go on the street,
you know, they kind of squat down on the side

(14:08):
of the sidewalk and go on the street. That's what
their previous dog did. But this Snoop puppy they can't.
It's been a few weeks now they've been trying to
get to go outside and stuck on this going inside,
and you know, they would reward you know, if it
would go at least once outside, they would reward it.
They don't want to punish the dog for you know,
doing what it was taught to do to go inside.
So they're kind of in a bin ere. I don't

(14:28):
know how they got the first one trend or if
it was already trained when they got it. How old
is this dog, buddy, it's probably like four or five months.

Speaker 8 (14:36):
Well, you know, there's a process to teaching a dog
to do just about anything, and I know you're going
to relay the information to them, it's going to be
kind of tough.

Speaker 10 (14:46):
They have the internet.

Speaker 8 (14:47):
They have the internet though, and there's a lot of
ways and techniques to teach a dog to do just
about anything. But pretty much what they need to do
is they need to have a routine and a schedule.

Speaker 10 (14:58):
Dogs need they need.

Speaker 8 (15:00):
Boundaries and they need rules to be happy and well adjusted.
So what they're gonna have to do is they're gonna
have to take the dog out on a leash a lot,
you know, and basically, you know, and they know when
the dog goes and how many times the dog goes
so they have to just you know, write it down
on a chart, write it down on.

Speaker 10 (15:18):
A piece of paper when we wake up.

Speaker 8 (15:20):
Let's say dog goes to the bathroom, Whether the dog
goes to the bathroom on the paper. And I'm assuming
and that maybe I shouldn't that they have the dog
in a crate and then they let them out, do they.

Speaker 17 (15:31):
No, it's in a separate it's on the first floor.
It's in they had a garage converted into part of
the house, but it's still kind of like a garage.
That's where it goes.

Speaker 8 (15:40):
Okay, Well, what I would do is I would establish
a schedule where four or five times a day I
would take that dog outside and I would I would
take the paper away. I would just remove the paper
and I wouldn't put it back until the dog is
unsuccessful outside. So basically, take the paper, okay, put the
dog on a leash, take him outside, don't talk to him,

(16:02):
don't look at him, just let him sniff around, let him,
let him do what dogs do. And you keep doing it.
You do it many times a day until the dog goes.
Eventually he's gonna go. You can't make him go. You
can't tell him to go. He's just gonna do it.
I mean, that's that's how it is. Dogs are gonna go,
they're gonna mark, they're gonna go. And when he does go,

(16:24):
when he finally does go outside, let's say she brings
him out like they she brings him out, he doesn't go,
bring him back in, put the paper back, let him
do his business, but keep bringing him outside. And you
got to stay out there for a while. You know,
you just can't go out there for like a minute,
you know, you gotta go out there for you know,
fifteen to twenty minutes. Let him walk around, you know,

(16:44):
and let him sniff and let him be a dog.
Tell your sister, is this your sister.

Speaker 17 (16:48):
I'm sorry, yes, that's correct.

Speaker 8 (16:51):
Tell her not to talk to him. Don't talk to him,
don't look at him. Just take him outside. Make no
big deal of it. It's not a it's not a
you know, it's not an event. It's just routine. You're
just gonna take him out. When he finally does go,
just say tell her to say good dog, good dog,
Pat him a little bit on the side, give him
a treat, okay, and bring him in. Don't have the

(17:13):
paper there anymore, though, because that's confusing. So make sure
as soon as he does go outside, the paper disappears
for good. And then four or five six hours later
she does it again. So at least three or four
times a day, she's gonna need to take him out
on a leash.

Speaker 10 (17:27):
She's gonna need.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
To walk him when he goes good dog. And let
me tell you, buddy, this is gonna take time. You
know a lot of people think they call up there like, oh, yeah,
I'll try it, and then they call back and they're like,
I tried it, it didn't work. Well, yeah, you tried it once.
This may take a month. It's a behavior. Dog has
this behavior. He goes inside. He's been taught to go inside,

(17:49):
So now you're gonna teach him to go outside. And
you tell your sister. She is the dog's teacher. That's
what us humans are. We're teachers and it's our job
to teach a dog what it is. We want, what
it is, expect what it is will make us happy.
Let's say she goes out with the dog and he
doesn't go and she starts petting him. You know, Oh
it's okay, buddy, no wrong move, don't do it. Just

(18:09):
calmly bring him back in the house. You only get
excited and pet him and give him affection.

Speaker 10 (18:14):
When he does what you want.

Speaker 8 (18:16):
Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 11 (18:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (18:18):
Yeah, I think they got spoiled with their previous dog.

Speaker 18 (18:20):
You know.

Speaker 17 (18:21):
I think they're really just gonna like about that time.
That's what it's gonna take.

Speaker 8 (18:25):
Did they get the previous dog as a puppy or
did they get the previous dog as an adult?

Speaker 17 (18:29):
That's what I can't remember. I think it was older.
But they had a dog walker back then. They had
a person that walked. Don't know if he's seen down there.
They walked like ten dogs at a time. Yeah, but
I don't know if he was drained before that or not.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
Well, you know what, buddy, it's it's really cool what
you said about a dog walker, because dogs learn tons
of stuff from other dogs.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
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Speaker 13 (21:02):
I'm Stacy Cohen for Animal Radio. An angry artist in
Canada is expressing his or her displeasure with the city's
deer population with a deer statue that's covered in deer droppings.
Looks like the statement piece was left on the steps
of city hall in British Columbia by an anonymous resident.

(21:22):
The mayor called it a very effective way of letting
them know that there was a problem that needed to
be resolved. However, city officials apparently already knew that there
was a deer issue in town, and they were waiting
for a decision and illegal battle over a nearby deer
herd well.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
They voted earlier.

Speaker 13 (21:38):
This week to spend fifteen thousand dollars on a project
so they can relocate the deer. I guess that statue
was pretty effective. I have had that problem too, where
I had a dog that used to jump over the
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and then they created a statue all over my car.
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Ready for this charged with grand theft after he attempted
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(22:40):
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(23:02):
he calls hustling. He also said he was a friend
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not sure what part of this story I find most alarming.
That hustling is actually a term used to describe stealing
hundreds of dollars worth of cat food to sell on
the black market, no less or that there are apparently

(23:23):
people out there within upwards of three hundred cats that
warrant this type of illegal activity. I don't know what
some guy in Florida needs with three hundred cats, but
the floridaness of this whole thing doesn't sound so good.
All I know is that if I had a kid
in school near Clearwater, Florida. No way in heck would
I let him drink the milk. I'm Stacy Cohen. Get

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Speaker 21 (23:54):
Hi Randy Travis here, and you're listening to animal radio.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Can only mean one thing. It is time for Joey Vallani.

Speaker 7 (24:04):
So a lot of people say that I talk a
lot about dogs, which I do and because I'm a
dog father, But every now and then I have some
cat tips and I had someone asked me about what
do they have to do to maintain healthy ears on
their cats?

Speaker 5 (24:18):
Is the same thing that we do with dogs, and it's.

Speaker 7 (24:21):
Very, very similar. The difference is is cats don't have
any hair in their ears, so there's nothing to remove,
which is a good thing because I don't know if
i'd want to pluck hair out of a cat's ear,
because I probably probably wouldn't groom cats anymore exactly.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
So there's a few easy ways to do it.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
The easiest way that I find is is you can
go right to your local pet store and buy ear
wipes or just get ear cleaner that they sell over
the counter with cotton balls and and swab it out
if you want to be you know, if you don't
want to cost real easy. Four parts water in one
part white vinegar, mix the solution up and just wipe

(25:01):
your cat's ears out. Now, you don't want to go
in at all, really, you just want you just want
to wipe out the canal, which you could see. So
I tell everyone, just use a cotton ball on your
finger because you're not gonna be able to get in
there too deep anyway. And you're just gonna take out
any debris now if it's really really heavy and crusty,
or it has a hall belowder to it, and then
bring your your cat to the veterinarian. The other thing

(25:24):
was and and someone sent me a message was how
about my cat's nails? Because the cat's nails honestly are
easier to cut than dogs nails.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
But here's the problem. The problem is the cat itself. Exactly.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
I personally don't recommend this is this is my recommendation.
I don't recommend somebody doing it at home unless you
are experienced holding cats. Okay, well, you have someone that's
experienced holding cats, because they're not going to sit there
like some dogs and hold their foot. And now some
of them will, but for the most part, usually my
experience for cats have been they let you do it

(25:59):
until the very end, and then they decide that they're
gonna bite and they're gonna scratch you and and and
it's gonna be a mess. But you want to be,
you know, daredevil, and you want to do it at home.
Most cats ninety nine point nine percent have clear nails, okay,
and you can see the pink pot inside the nail,
which is actually the quick okay, And if you go

(26:20):
too close to that, you're gonna make it bleed. So
you want to have some sort of of clotting powder
that you can put on there just in case the
nail does bleed.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
But I my recommendation, stay about the eighth of an inch.

Speaker 7 (26:32):
Away, take the hook off itself, and if you do
that once a month, you'll have no problems. Now, cats
that are not active that just stay in the house
and don't use a scratching post or don't use your
furniture or your carpets, you really really gonna pay attention
to this because once they curl and they curl under
and go into the pads and the cats. But you
now show up those nails that they're like they're walking

(26:53):
on sheet rock nails and it's very, very painful for
the cat. So you do want to check them. You
do want to makes you up. But again, it's easier
to go to your groomer once every six weeks and
have them do it for ten dollars than to worry
about getting bit and going to the hospital, because that's
usually what happens.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, I ain't touching that cat.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Well, you know, I know the Olympics are over, but
I think that should be one of the Olympic event
is cutting cat's nails.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Cutting cat's nails.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, see he can do the best in the fast
and do them and something.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
That's Yeah, that is extreme.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
There you go, that is extreme. I'm entering.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Let's go to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, how are you.

Speaker 22 (27:29):
Doing doing well?

Speaker 12 (27:31):
Guys?

Speaker 16 (27:31):
How are you good?

Speaker 4 (27:32):
What's going on in your world?

Speaker 22 (27:34):
Well, you know, I've got these two dogs that are
from the same breathe in litter, and I'm trying to
take them out on walks and I'm trying to take
one out leaving the other one kind of watching the house.
If you will, and when we tend to do that,
the dog that's not getting walked is out of control, howling, crying.

Speaker 16 (27:58):
It's a nuisance.

Speaker 22 (28:00):
Is out there to talk about this.

Speaker 8 (28:02):
I'm here, Jeff, I'm here for you, buddy. Now, you
take the one dog out and everything is cool, and
you leave the other dog in the house, and the dog.

Speaker 10 (28:09):
Howls and goes nutty.

Speaker 22 (28:10):
He does, and it's not even if he's in the house,
and may even have him in the backyard while I
walk the other dog. I mean, I get it. He's
jealous that he's not kidding walk while the other one is.

Speaker 16 (28:19):
But it's like he's not cool noise if you know
what I mean.

Speaker 10 (28:23):
All right, buddy, he's not jealous. Okay, dogs don't get jealous.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
The problem is the pack is leaving and you're leaving
him behind, and he thinks he's in charge, and he's like, well,
you guys aren't allowed to go.

Speaker 10 (28:33):
I didn't give you.

Speaker 8 (28:34):
Permission to go. So that's why he's howling. And to
eliminate the problem, firstly, you got to be the pack leader.
You gotta be in charge.

Speaker 10 (28:41):
Jeff.

Speaker 8 (28:41):
Are you Are you in charge? Are you a man
or a mouse? Jeff Hey, now, come on, Jeff, where's
you let me talk to your wife. I want to
find out who's in charge in that house.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Jeff.

Speaker 8 (28:54):
You've got to You've got to walk them together, one
on your left, one on your right. You've got to
keep them right at your side. You cannot let them
walk in front of you. And above all, you've got
to have a choker chain on so you can give corrections.
And a correction is given with a quick flick of
the wrist. You know, it's just a quick flick of
the wrist and no talking, Jeff. And you walk them
together every single day for at least fifteen to twenty minutes,

(29:17):
at least one time a day. You enter the house first.
You don't let them go first. You control the food,
You do all these little things to let them know
you're in charge. And once your dog sees that you're
in charge, that you're a strong, confident, compact leader, the
barking and the howling will stop because you'll just look
at him and go, hey, quiet now. If he doesn't

(29:37):
listen to you, you have to have a punishment place,
you know, like a dark room or even even his kennel.
I mean, because you're always happy to see your dog
when he comes out of the kennel. So you put
him in that place to let him know that the
behavior is not you don't like it. And when he's
doing what you do want, that's.

Speaker 10 (29:52):
When you go, good dog.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
But you got to walk them together and you got
to be the pack leader. Jeff, can you do that.

Speaker 22 (29:58):
I can work on that.

Speaker 8 (29:59):
I can work work on that, buddy. And be patient.
It doesn't happen overnight. You gotta be patient. But the
less words the better. Don't talk so much, use your body,
be calm, stand straight, confident.

Speaker 16 (30:10):
Awesome.

Speaker 22 (30:11):
Thanks for that advice.

Speaker 23 (30:12):
I think you would have been talking to my wife
because she does that to me because when my neighbor,
of course, the street went, she comes out of a house,
I howl and she puts me on a choka chain.
And so if you've been talking to my wife, we're
gonna have a problem you cable.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
Let me tell you.

Speaker 24 (30:25):
I think.

Speaker 8 (30:26):
I think, Joey, I pictured you on a choker chain.

Speaker 10 (30:28):
Joey, Why did I know that?

Speaker 4 (30:29):
There you go? Thanks for your call, Jeff.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
I want to take a second to answer a quick
email that just came in off the animal radio app.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
I've got one from Steve. He's our over opinionated truck driver,
Good Old Steve. Yeah, he calls it all the time.
He's a he's a regular listener. He wants to know
if fresh oatmeal is good for his dogs. He says
they love it, and he feeds it to them all
the time.

Speaker 11 (30:51):
You know, Steve, I'd have to say that dogs like
a lot of things we feed them, and I never
allow my dogs to say, Hmm, this tastes really good.
I'm gonna eat it, and I'm gonna believe them, because
they'll eat just about anything I throw at them. Oatmeal
is not a bad ingredient at all. It's a good
carbohydrate and it's got great fiber in it. You know,

(31:12):
I'd have to say, use good judgment. Dogs don't necessarily
need us to supplement things, adding in extra things here
and there. If you're feeding a good quality dog food,
I tend to stay with that. But I would certainly
keep those big bowls of oatmeal away.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, Hey, you know what, I want to throw in
something there because I know Ladybug loves to have a
little bit of the instant oatmeal that I have. But
it's sugar free and the sugar, so substitute is xylotol.

Speaker 11 (31:36):
So yes, what are you doing noxylotol?

Speaker 5 (31:40):
No good?

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Noxylotol No, absolutely not so.

Speaker 11 (31:44):
Dilotol is very dangerous for dogs and it is found
in a lot of sugar free products. So that is
very serious. Hell, and I'm gonna have to really report
you on that one.

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You're listening to Animal Radio. Call the Dream Team now

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Hey, Jeff, how are you doing?

Speaker 18 (33:09):
Just fine?

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Where are you calling?

Speaker 18 (33:12):
I live in Boneville, Georgia.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Boneville? Is that really the name? Boneville?

Speaker 16 (33:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (33:16):
Yeah, I found out a couple of weeks ago our
hotel Bird down there. It hasn't been inhabited since the
nineteen thirties.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Totally found it.

Speaker 18 (33:24):
They built it in eighteen forty five.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Whoo.

Speaker 18 (33:29):
Yeah, some guys named Bones came there in eighteen forty
and built a mill below the I built a gam
and made a mill pond and made a mill and
it became a boom in place.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Thus the name Boneville.

Speaker 18 (33:42):
Yeah. His his name was John Bones Steel Nyes and
that beautiful. About five years ago we had.

Speaker 16 (33:48):
A post office.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well, I'm going to dedicate today's show to Boneville, if
that's okay with everybody in this Okay, Bones and Bones,
doctor Debbie, and I believe this call might be for
you from Boneville.

Speaker 11 (33:59):
Okay, what do you got going on?

Speaker 18 (34:01):
I got these really handsome joalas. I got a male's
he looks just like the Beverly Hills male in that movie.
He's handsome, he's got all the markings and he's pedigree.
And I got a female. I brought in a puppy
and she's grown now and I can't get them through
the meat. Well, she gets very violent. She has mood

(34:26):
swings like I've never seen otherwise, she's you know what
she gets. Her moodstings are so bad. I actually rewrote
a Disney song about her.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Oh yeah, can we hear it?

Speaker 26 (34:43):
In fact, I just added to it.

Speaker 18 (34:45):
Well, don't you want to know what I want to
do to the dog to make her meat? First of all,
I either want.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
To do both of them, well either either either way? Yeah,
I'm game.

Speaker 18 (34:55):
Okay, what do you want to know? You want to
know what I what my plan is to make has happened?

Speaker 11 (35:01):
Yes, tell me what your your plan or what you
think the solution to this problem is.

Speaker 18 (35:07):
Okay, he's been humping on stuff like toys and all
that and just not ejaculating, not you know, axe getting interaction.

Speaker 26 (35:15):
But he humps on this stuff.

Speaker 18 (35:17):
And he has this one pillow that he humps on
all the time. We call it this woman, And I
was thinking about ripping it open and wrapping it around
her and taking some baby diaper pins and wrapping around her.
Maybe that might do two things that might make him
more attractive to her, and it might keep her from
turning around and trying to bite them.

Speaker 11 (35:38):
Well, you know that it isn't a foreign concept, and
actually do this with collection of semen for large animals,
large breed animals, they do have kind of like a
fake horse that they will collect from and the animal
will mount that. So it's a possibility, kind of like jars.

(36:00):
So the concept is there. Now. The thing that I
will tell you is that there are situations, especially when
dogs are they grow up in the same household that
the female may never accept and she will never stand
for a breeding, even if she's going through estris, and
even if she is certainly horny as craziness. Part of

(36:21):
that is because of doggy dominance, and there are some
females that just do not accept I guess the stature
that the male in that household is worthy of meeting
with her. She may be more dominant aggressive. There may
be other things going on with that fella that may
not allow him to do the deed. So there could

(36:42):
be a lot going on here that we may not
really quite understand. So I generally, if we have two
dogs in the same household, the things aren't going well.
I don't get my hopes up too much because in
many cases, for established breeders, they will actually take the
female to the male's household and allow the female to breed.

(37:02):
In that situation, it kind of, you know, it's kind
of like gone his own turf. You know, you're less nervous,
all that kind of stuff. So you can't do that
because your dogs are in the same household. Maybe we
can send him to Kimpton Hotels for a nice little
gillaway or something like that. We can consider.

Speaker 18 (37:17):
Yes, I might have to do that, because you know,
I want I want a son named Bam Bam. His
name is bam By. Her name is Feline like to
Dear from Disney. Yeah, yeah, I want, I want, I
want to. I want to. I want him to move on.
I want I want another generation.

Speaker 11 (37:34):
Sure, Well, you know, Jeff, I gotta tell you, I
understand the motivation to want to have one of his own.
But here in Las Vegas, fifty almost, I'm not quite
fifty percent, but half of the shelter is truly made
up of a predominance of chihuahuas and pitbulls. And we
have no shortage of chihuahua's in this world. So as

(37:57):
much as he may be beautiful, you can go to
just any shelter and find a beautiful young male and
save a life. And I would really advocate that you
consider that.

Speaker 18 (38:07):
I've seen a lot of them, but they're all neutered
and spade. But then again, you know we're probably gonna
end up getting him nuter before too long, because this
is too wild. He got whippers of wines and the sheep.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Growls and yeah, can I hear the song? I'd like
to hear the song?

Speaker 18 (38:22):
Yeah, okay, here it goes, Here goes Corrella Leen. She
can be mean, Corrella for Leen. She's kinmy and lean,
She's got teeth fin she knows how to use them.
Watch your fingers, you might lose them, Corrella fa Leen.
You never seen a sneaky, conniving, biting machine. She warns

(38:46):
you in it's time to go out. She's growling at
you from underneath the couch. I ended it there with
Carrella Corrella, f Leen. I have more verses to go,
but that's when I got so far.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (38:59):
Wow, that's good a lot of times. So you know,
I can make up stuff like this.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Yeah, you're you're very talented. You're you're extremely talented. I
might say, I might say America's got talent worthy.

Speaker 11 (39:14):
Maybe he's starting a new segment on animal Radio. You know,
maybe we need to have a you know, musical component.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
I like this, that's a good idea.

Speaker 18 (39:23):
Rock and roll songs, Disney songs, and add them to
your dog's personality.

Speaker 26 (39:28):
Well, I just say, if it doesn't happen this time,
I want to just get him fixed and probably go
hunt another one, Doug, because those those dogs are something.
It's hard to.

Speaker 18 (39:41):
Break away from. A Chillah once you ever had one.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah, once you go to chiaha, it's hard to go
back to anything else. Really, Jeff, thank you so much
for your call today. You know what you've cheered me
up is what you've got.

Speaker 27 (39:54):
To I would love to go on vacation, but I
don't want to leave our Charlie behind.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
I agree.

Speaker 21 (40:05):
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you can stay with your pet. They also offer reviews
so you have an idea about pet policy to include
any restrictions, fees, and what pedimenities to expect.

Speaker 27 (40:16):
That's dare I say, awesome?

Speaker 9 (40:18):
What are we waiting for?

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I'm way ahead of you.

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I just logged onto Fido Friendly dot com and found
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Charlie agrees, when do we leave?

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Speaker 1 (40:39):
Com celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal
Radio featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White, doc
trainer Alan Cable, groomer Joey Valani, communicator Joy Turner, and
here are your hosts Alle Rooms and Judy Francis.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Welcome on today's show.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
We're going to talk to a lady who's put together
an organization that funds people's surgeries for their animals and
medical treatment that they can't afford and you know, we'll
get calls like this all the time. People will say, well,
my doctor says, in order for this animal to live,
it's got to have this kind of surgery, but I
can't afford it. Do you know anyone that can help.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
It's like indiego go or Kickstarter.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
It's what a crowdfunding is. What they call that crowdfunding
for Oh, we'll find out more. You'll just have to
stick around for that.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (41:29):
Well, if you've gone to the vat lately and you
had to go get prescriptions, you know how costly it is.
It's expensive to have to go. I mean it costs
as much as human stuff, sometimes more. But I have
a way that you might be able to save some money.
I can get you a discount maybe up to fifty
five percent on generics and fifteen percent on brand name medications.
I'll tell you about it coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
Good to hear. So I have one question for you,
doctor Davy.

Speaker 11 (41:55):
Yes, what might that be?

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Well, last week brit Savage reported that iguanas have two
pece Is this true?

Speaker 11 (42:02):
It absolutely is true? Yes, they have two, and you
know we actually well, I don't know, guys, don't like
talking about this kind of thing. But we recently had
We recently had a little lizard that had to have
his hemipenies amputated, so he got a little kind of
funky infection down there and we had to basically surgically

(42:24):
remove them. So wow, poor guy had two of them
and he lost both of them, lost.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
Both of them.

Speaker 8 (42:28):
Doctor Debbie sounds happy about it.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Yeah, why do they have too? What's the purpose?

Speaker 11 (42:33):
It's just the way that they were created.

Speaker 19 (42:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (42:38):
I guess, well, why look a gift horse.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
In the mountain right sometimes to go upstairs.

Speaker 8 (42:44):
Just likes to clown around, That's all I mean.

Speaker 10 (42:46):
There doesn't have to be a reason.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
The Sorry, Yeah, we're having one of.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Those shows Ladies and Jelly.

Speaker 8 (42:57):
I wish I had one.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
About any.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
You're fine without any. Every guy in America's crossing his
legs right now.

Speaker 16 (43:07):
You know that.

Speaker 11 (43:08):
After your story, I love watching you guys squirm because
it's just it's just too much fun to harass you guys.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
You have too much fun talking about Spain and neutering,
that's for sure.

Speaker 8 (43:17):
Doctor w Is it true that the great white Iguani
snail has over one thousand testicles.

Speaker 11 (43:24):
Now you could be making up stuff. I have no
idea about snails. I don't work on snails.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Let's see, Oh, Irwin, please save us. Is how are
you doing? Where are you calling from, buddy?

Speaker 16 (43:37):
I'm going from feel factory.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
Okay? What's going on with for you?

Speaker 18 (43:42):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (43:42):
I have a sean that refuses to keep whatever you
give him or you give her. I try to try
try bug food and try the mighty dull food it can.

(44:04):
She doesn't like it, but strangely enough, for last night,
I gave her a piece of eggplant from Filipino Cooking
and she likes it.

Speaker 11 (44:17):
Okay, and well, she's got good taste, you know. Is
there anything else going on with her? She's doing any vomiting,
drinking more than usual, having problems pooping?

Speaker 16 (44:28):
No, actually, none of them. She's she's drinking, I guess normally,
but she barks whenever she drinks a little bit, and
she drinks, she bowls.

Speaker 11 (44:44):
Vomits.

Speaker 16 (44:45):
No, she doesn't vommit, but like when you when you
drink the first drapple water, like it came in so fast,
that's how.

Speaker 11 (44:56):
She She kind of coughs it up most.

Speaker 16 (45:00):
Kind It's kind of.

Speaker 8 (45:06):
Okay.

Speaker 16 (45:06):
Well, tell me I suspect she is pregnant, but I
don't know how to tell she's pregnant or not.

Speaker 11 (45:13):
Oh okay, so she's not spade, then, huh okay? When
was she in.

Speaker 16 (45:17):
Heat last about a month ago?

Speaker 11 (45:21):
Okay? And is there a chance she got together with
a boy?

Speaker 16 (45:23):
No?

Speaker 10 (45:24):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (45:25):
All right, well then you know what I'm going to
tell you. The number one thing I'm going to advise
you to do is get your baby, pack her up
into a vehicle, and get her to a veterinarian. Because
when I hear of a female dog that was recently
in heat and isn't eating, the number one thing I
want to check out for is something called a piometra,

(45:46):
And this is a condition in female dogs when they're
not spade. What happens is their reproductive track through uterus
becomes infected, and it usually happens about a month after
they've had their heat cycle. And if we are pretty
certain she hasn't had any kind of breeding and she
couldn't be pregnant, some dogs will even get kind of

(46:09):
a distended belly and even look like they're pregnant. But
some of the really big warning signs of this can
be a lack of appetite, vomiting, drinking a lot of water,
excessive amounts of water, and then some females will actually
have kind of a pussy discharge coming from their vaginal area.

(46:29):
So you may not have all those things going on.
But because the risk of this is so serious and
it is a potentially fatal condition, I'm going to recommend
you get their baby to that veterinarian and get her
checked out. And if he says, you know, hey, it's
not a piometer, then I'll feel a lot better. But
I don't want you to take a risk on this,
especially on a weekend. It's just too dangerous.

Speaker 16 (46:52):
What can I do to problem?

Speaker 10 (46:57):
How old is your dog?

Speaker 8 (46:58):
I'm just curious about.

Speaker 16 (47:00):
About three months, I mean three years old.

Speaker 8 (47:03):
And has your dog always been a finicky eater? Or
is this just a current?

Speaker 16 (47:09):
Is she's been choosy all the while all the while?

Speaker 11 (47:13):
Okay, all right, and and that's you know, that may
be the case.

Speaker 16 (47:17):
But like I said, for me, the focus, I was
thinking she might be uh displaying this gestation what do
you call this? It might be displaying for me kind
of this gestation period where like humans, they don't feel.

Speaker 8 (47:37):
Like eating, no if doctor doctor Wie's you know, you
take the dog to the vet, make sure there's no problems.
And if there are no medical problems, dogs will eat anything.
I mean, you put something in front of a dog,
a dog is going to eat it. So the dog
has figured out that she can manipulate you and can
and can control you just by ignoring her food.

Speaker 16 (47:59):
That's what I was too, because she eats. She eats vegetable.
I've fed her vegetable last night and she eats it
with no hesitation.

Speaker 11 (48:15):
Hmm, okay, Well, I hope she's just being a fussy
gallon if that's the case. You know, I know Allan
would probably support, you know, a little tough love to
making sure that she'll eat, and she'll eat what you
provide for her.

Speaker 8 (48:27):
Buy her dog food stick in front of her and
walk away and don't pay any attention to her.

Speaker 16 (48:32):
Oh yeah, I ted, I tied that, and she just
looked at she looked, she looked at the food, then
turned away and walked away.

Speaker 10 (48:44):
You tried it once.

Speaker 8 (48:44):
You got to do it consistently, constantly, never change. Just
get the food, stand there with it, whatever food you choose,
put it down and walk away and and just forget
about it. Don't even think about whether she eats or
doesn't eat. Just forget about it.

Speaker 11 (48:58):
Okay, I'll try and definitely if this baby isn't eating
for you today, you know I'm going to go back
to saying, you know, I have to be the advocate
for your baby, and if there's something medically wrong, I
don't want you waiting this weekend and just trying different
foods to get her to eat. So if she has
no appetite and has any of those other symptoms, please
get her to a better an area.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
But thanks for your call today. You're going to we
appreciate it. One eight six six four or five, eight
four or five. How long should an animals stop eating
before you really need to get to the vet.

Speaker 11 (49:25):
Well, it really depends on the pet. So if we
have a track record of being a picky eater and
where you always pull something off the table and you
indulge them, that's hard to gauge. So it's one reason
why you want to stick to a faithful, stable diet,
so you don't encourage that. So you know how to
interpret a good eater for me, if a pet's not
eating and there's something else going on, really for my dogs.

(49:48):
If they weren't to eat for twenty four hours, I'd
know that's a serious problem. Some picky eaters could go
two days, three days. But you know what, I'm just
really really concerned about his doggie, you know, having potentially
some reproductive problems going on there.

Speaker 8 (50:03):
So okay, that's so interesting because I just helped somebody
with that same problem two weeks ago. So funny. You know,
you would think that she is an executive chef for
this dog, you know, so she took the.

Speaker 10 (50:16):
Dog to the vet. There's no problem.

Speaker 8 (50:17):
I'm like, stop making a big deal out of this.
Just put the food down and walk away. Just put
it down and walk away. They eat whatever, dogs will
eat anything.

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Speaker 28 (50:44):
Vinnie Penn coming at you with another party animal installment.
That's right, despite all your emailing, I have not been canceled.

Speaker 10 (50:52):
Okay, that's a joke.

Speaker 28 (50:53):
Nobody's been emailing about getting me canceled or kicked off
the air. Had an interesting drunken fight the other night.
Believe it or not, a girl I went to grammar
school with. I'm known since sixth grade. Now our kids
are in the same class together, and we were talking
about what fans we were of Benji when we when
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you almost remember then. And her husband, who up until
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that corny Collie.

Speaker 10 (51:37):
Next thing, you know, it was Benji versus Lassie.

Speaker 28 (51:40):
How Lassie always knew how to communicate and get Timmy always?

Speaker 10 (51:44):
Why was Timmy always in trouble?

Speaker 28 (51:46):
Why was he always falling down wells and letting tree
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Speaker 10 (51:52):
You know, Timmy was just he was a little too needy.
Benji got him, He stopped bank robberies. Benji kind of
ran out of his own. He was a lone dog. Yes,
it was a pathetic night.

Speaker 28 (52:06):
Actually, it really was kind of embarrassing that we could
get into a Benji versus Laste argument. Maybe you'd like
to chime in, drop me a line Vinnie at Animal
radio dot com.

Speaker 10 (52:15):
I say I won that argument.

Speaker 28 (52:17):
I'm gonna double check with Maria see if her husband
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Speaker 10 (52:20):
He looked like he was going to punch me at
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Speaker 2 (54:01):
After Ladybug finishes or stellon Chewi, she likes to sit
down and gnaw on a little bone.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
Of course, I'm not talking about.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
A real I hope not how she likes. Actually, one
of those junkie treats from one of the big companies
that is compressed raw hide and it has a little
bit of that fake bacon in the middle. It's probably
not very healthy, but she likes it, and after she
eats her meal, we reward her with that and she
likes to chew on it. Is there a difference between
compressed raw hides and what is the confusion that.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
You talk about?

Speaker 11 (54:31):
Well, first, I'm going to say how that that sounds
very much like a doggy potato chip that you're feeding here,
and it falls into the doggy junk food category, so
we do have to limit that. But yes, you know,
we have talked about compressed raw hide, and I think
there's a very big misunderstanding and what we're actually talking
about and describing. So I want to clear it up.
Compressed raw hide is a rawhide product that is under

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high pressure, and it is actually a very heavy product
and it's very boring looking. There's only it comes in
one color, raw hide brown. Okay, So I think many
people misunderstand that they see those nice green, red yellow
sticks that are in cool sheeps, they're like stars or
Halloween or Christmas shapes. That is not what we're talking about.

(55:17):
That is a raw hide product where they chop up
raw hide, add fake colorings and they press it into molds.
But those are eaten very quickly. While they may provide
some safe chewing. They are not the same thing as
compressed rawhide. If you're looking for something really durable to
hold up for that tough chewer, you want to look
for compressed raw hide, which is very kind of a
tan gray, little glistening on the surface, and like I said,

(55:41):
it's boring. It does not have the bacon through the middle.
It's not red or green, so you definitely want to
look cautiously on that.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
How long should it take for a dog to go
through one of these compressed raw hides. Some people say, well,
they'll go through it in a few days, some people
say it takes a week. How long should it take
to go through it? And does that depend on size?

Speaker 11 (56:01):
It does depend on It depends on how big of
a chure your pet is. So for I can tell
you for my labradors, who can go through a standard
raw hide in about ten minutes flat, they it takes
them about four hours to really work through a compressed
raw hide. And at that point then I get a
little nub of that leftover and I throw that away.
I don't want them to eat that last bit.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
Ah.

Speaker 11 (56:23):
So for a small dog, you know, they could last
a couple of days. Small medium size dogs that don't
have maybe the bite force that you know, say the
eighty pound labrador like my eldest son, that how long
he takes to get through that. So yeah, it's a
little bit personalized, but definitely very different than all those
treaty fruity looking treats that are out there.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Judy, do you throw out that last little bit of
the compressed raw hide for lady Bug?

Speaker 3 (56:47):
No, but I watch her when she eats it, and
I'm right there. I give it to her, but I
sit right there just in case, okay, and if it's
if it's small and it's bedtime or something like that,
I will put it away so that she can't get
it the next day without me giving it to her.

Speaker 11 (57:02):
So I can want what a responsible mind, that's exactly
and any shoe item that is just all what it's
all about. You know, we need to be watchful. No
shoe item is one hundred percent safe, So you always
want to kind of be the responsible party. Don't trust
the dog who having a party which you went on
wrong hide this weekend. So I'll always be watchful.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
And for heaven's sakes, no bones, no bones about bones.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
Well, hello, Kevin, how are you.

Speaker 12 (57:27):
I've got a question about dynavite and if there's any
other supplement that would take the place of it. I
had a dog that was eighteen years old and five
years prior to her passing, we put her on dynavite.
She had girls tumors that actually expelled theirselves after we

(57:47):
got her on dynavite about six months afterwards. And the
vet was totally amazed at that and surprised that she
lived as long as she did. But we're grateful with that.
But I've got to sit you. And then I've got
a mixed bagel pound dog and the bagel is past
fourteen years old and she's having hard right problems with

(58:11):
their joints and stuff. And we got our glucosamine right now,
And is there anything else I can do for her
to help alleviate her joint problems?

Speaker 11 (58:21):
Well, potentially, And there's there's a lot that we can
do for pets that have arthritis or what we're presuming
to have arthritis, and glucosamine is probably the most popular
thing that we look at as a supplement form. And
just like people who take glucosamine, it helps to kind
of restore the building blocks of cartilage and joint fluid,
so that that's a very good thing for a pet

(58:43):
that has arthritis. And I like to give that to
dogs that have chronic arthritis that are recovering from an
orthopedic injury. So I think that's a very sound thing.
As far as other supplements, some people give omega fatty
acids for the benefits of joint help as well, and
that can be very useful. So you know, things like

(59:04):
dynovite have some fatty acids. So you know, I can't
tell you as far as what other products I would
use may be there, but I think a good fatty
acid product is definitely something I'd look at. As far
as other things that we look at, you know, we
have to decide at what point do just natural things
help and what point do we need to look at
getting the pet on something more definitive to help pain.

(59:28):
And not that I'm against the supplements. I believe in them,
I use them, but I like to make sure that
we're being very abreast of what's the most important thing
that this pet will need. And if a pet needs
a pain reliever, I'm believing given a pain reliever, so
that might be something else that we can look at
in an older pet. So if she's not already on
some kind of nonsteroidal pain medicine, then you know, talk

(59:50):
to your veterinarian because I would really look at that
as well to use in conjunction with some of the
supplements that can be helpful. And then probably the most
overlooked the thing when we talk about pets and arthritis
is keeping them from getting fat. And so many times
we can take pets off of medications that are suffering
with pain if we can get them slim down to

(01:00:11):
that of a healthy weight pet. If they're on the
portly side, we cut back on the rations and we
do non weight bearing activity like swimming or even just
low grade walking just to help burn some calories there.
So those are some of the things I probably look
at trying, and you know, I don't know what other
kind of health issues your pet has with supplements are
kind of always one of those things that is an

(01:00:33):
individual thing. I don't really give a blanket recommendation for
what every pet might need.

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Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
You're listening to Animal Radio call the Dream Team now

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
This is very exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
You know, we get about a dozen calls a week, Okay,
between ten and twelve calls a week, people asking do
you know a vet marrying that takes care of low
income people? We can't afford this surgery. We can't afford
that surgery, but the doctor says, we need to do
it to save our animal. Do you know of anybody
that can help us out? And usually, well, we'll spend
about ten or fifteen minutes scouring their area by zip

(01:05:40):
code looking for low income.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
Vets if we can.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
But it's hard really to find a good solution or
answer for them. And that's why I was really excited
when this next young lady came along, Stacy Nutini.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
Is it Nutini?

Speaker 24 (01:05:52):
You are prompting it perfectly?

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Okay, Well we were just talking the last few minutes.
What a great idea you have. You have fun to
pet Miracle.

Speaker 24 (01:06:00):
It's a crowdfunding platform site much like others. Some people
might be familiar with Indiegogo or Kickstarter, and it allows
somebody to come on and create a projects over a
certain amount of time for a monetary goal need that
they have for their animals. So for instance, if your
dog Fido needed a surgery that costs two thousand dollars,
you could set up a project for two thousand dollars

(01:06:21):
over thirty days and it will run and count down
then for thirty days, and people can come on and
donate to help you if you're in a time of
need where you can't afford surgery for your pet.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
If our pet needs surgery, isn't it more? I guess
thirty days seems like a long.

Speaker 24 (01:06:34):
Time, all right, some of some cases actually will be
longer than others. We actually have a five day to
ninety day range on the site that people can set
up projects for, and so for instance, if an animal
needed an emergency surgery, then they might only want to
make that project for five days so they can, you know,
create more of a call to actions. But if you
have an animal, for example, that maybe is going through

(01:06:56):
something continuous like chemotherapy treatments, then you might want to
use the longer I'm frame. So it just depends on
what your needs are.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
I'm assuming I have to put in a certain amount
of goal that I want to reach. What happens if
I don't reach that?

Speaker 24 (01:07:08):
Actually we are different in some sit Some sites actually
will only let you keep the funds if you raise
the entire goal amount. But we believe that any amount
that the project creators raise is theirs to keep toward
the care of their animal, because a lot of times
they can somehow find another way to come up with
the restaurant, whether it be through a care credit possibly
with their vet office, or a payment plan, installments or

(01:07:30):
something like that. So if a project, let's say, has
a two thousand dollars goal and they only raise six hundred,
they still get to use that six hundred toward the
care of their pet.

Speaker 11 (01:07:39):
So, Stacy, how do visitors to the website honestly know
that what their money they're giving is really to an
animal's cause? I mean, how do you ensure that?

Speaker 24 (01:07:48):
Okay, Well, every project has an application process. So basically,
if somebody comes on and finds up for an account
on our site, and they create their project, which submits
it to us, and I actually am the sole operator
of our site, so I make calls to the actual
vet offices. So upon the application they are required to

(01:08:09):
provide us with their veterinary office information. So I make
a call personally and speak with the vet or a
staff of the veterinary office, just to make sure that
the animal and the owner are real that they have
been seen recently, that they actually have the problem that
they are you know, claiming that they need to raise
funds for, and that the costs that they're asking for,
the goal that they're asking for aligned with the costs

(01:08:31):
is actually needed. So I personally verify every single project
that we allow activated on our site.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
So when you vet an animal, you literally vet an animal.

Speaker 24 (01:08:39):
Yeah, it's a pretty rigorous screening process, just because we
don't want people to be able to, you know, play
upon the sympathies of others and create Udelon projects.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
How long have you had this site up?

Speaker 24 (01:08:50):
The site started on October twentieth of twenty twelve, so
we are just under a year and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
And how's it going.

Speaker 24 (01:08:56):
It's going amazingly. We are actually almost at the one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars mark, very close, just a
couple of thousand away. So for that year and a half,
that's pretty good. Basically about ten thousand a month toward
animal care and you know, we get more traffic to
the site and more projects coming in every single week
because word of mouth kind of helps spread the idea

(01:09:18):
that we're out there. You know, until now, people have
panicked when their animal needed something that they couldn't afford.
You know, you rack your brain, what can I do?
Where can I borrow money?

Speaker 8 (01:09:26):
From?

Speaker 24 (01:09:26):
Which credit cards can I possibly max out? And you know,
while people still still do that, at least they know
that they have another option now if they if they
are willing to reach out and ask for some help
from the tech community.

Speaker 4 (01:09:38):
We are with Stacy and ten.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
She is the top dog at fund a pet Miracle,
which is a crowd sourcing fund, our crowd funding site
for animals that need emergency procedures.

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
The how did this?

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
How did you figure this out? I mean, was this
something like, oh, you had an animal, let's say that
needed that luxiting petella surgery and you couldn't afford it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
What's your story?

Speaker 24 (01:09:59):
It's kind of along those lines. Actually, my boyfriend and
I started the site together and we had a bagal
terrier mixed dog who had diabetes and kidney disease in
twenty twelve, and we invested pretty much every Penny that
we had in her care between I would say January
and the time that she ended up passing in August

(01:10:19):
that year. And you know, we were lucky that we
were able to do so at the time. But you know,
we knew as well as anybody else that you're not
always in a position to be able to do something
like that. You know, everybody has kind of the highs
and lows of life, and what if you're at a
spot where you couldn't afford to do that. So once
she passed, we actually were already in the process of

(01:10:40):
trying to get the crowd funding approved to paypole because
you have to go through a pretty rigorous, you know,
business licensing process, and so a couple months later is
when it launched. But yeah, I mean that's basically what
it was. That we were thinking we were lucky to
be able to do this. We couldn't always have done this.
In the future, we might not have even been able
to do this, So what could we do to help

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people who were in a situation that we were in
where she could still be healthy and have some care
over a period of time, you know, And she lived
the last I would say seven or eight months of
her life extremely happy and healthy. You know, how do
we provide that for other people so that they're able
to maximize the time that their pet has to be
healthy and happy with their family.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Why do you think people give to strangers?

Speaker 24 (01:11:22):
That's a good question. Actually, I think that the pet
stories are very relatable in several different ways. First of all,
a lot of people obviously relate to a breed that
they either own or once owned, so they see a story.
For me, I own four beagles, so I see a
story about a beagle, it automatically pulls up my heart string,
you know what I mean. So I think breed relations

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help that. And also the specific problems that animals are having.
Maybe somebody lost the pet one time that they couldn't
afford to have surgery for for the same problem, and
so they feel, you know, it pulls with their heart
a little bit so that they could possibly help the
dog that needs or the dog that needs what's sitting
to tell surgery. So I think those are the two
main reasons. And obviously I feel that our site provides

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a pretty good layer of security as far as that
we do thoroughly about the project so people can actually
donate with confidence. Knowing that they are giving to an
animal who actually needs it, who is real, and that
they don't have to have any doubt in their mind
of where their money's going.

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It's people like Stacy that make this world a great
place to live, and I encourage you to check out
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Let's head back to the phones.

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Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
Right now, we have Terry. Hi, Terry, how are you?

Speaker 11 (01:14:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
I got to press this button over here or the
phones don't work.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
Hi, Terry, how are you doing?

Speaker 33 (01:14:08):
I'm doing great? How are you?

Speaker 4 (01:14:10):
Very good?

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Glad to talk to you. For like a couple of
seconds there I was talking to nothing.

Speaker 33 (01:14:15):
No, I'm here, I'm here, Okay, where are you? I
am in Ohio?

Speaker 4 (01:14:19):
Well you are on with doctor Debbie.

Speaker 33 (01:14:21):
Well, hello, doctor Debbie.

Speaker 11 (01:14:22):
So what do you have going on with you?

Speaker 31 (01:14:24):
Well?

Speaker 33 (01:14:24):
I have two shalty puppies. They are a will be
eight months old the fifteenth of this month, and the
little female. She's very tiny, she's only about maybe fifteen
pounds right now. And her brother is like thirty three
and they're out of the same letter. You'd never believe

(01:14:45):
these are the same puppies.

Speaker 12 (01:14:46):
Wow letter.

Speaker 29 (01:14:47):
It's a big difference.

Speaker 33 (01:14:48):
Yeah, it's a huge difference. Her teeth, her front. I
assume that the canine teeth the ones that point down
and then kind of get in sync with the bottom
once the long one they're coming in on an angle,
they're protruding forward and it's kind of forcing her bottom

(01:15:11):
teeth out. Is there something we need to be concerned about.
I mean, I've been on the internet and I've seen
where they put braces on dogs so they pull the teeth.
But when they pull the teeth that they have complications.
Is it something that we can just let her go
with or is it going to interfere with her eating

(01:15:32):
or what.

Speaker 11 (01:15:34):
Well, generally, and what you're describing is where the canine
teeth are the big kind of like the fay teeth,
and particularly in shelties, we do see this congenital deformity
if you call it that, where that big hook tooth
is pointed forward and it can actually interfere with the
gum and cause some problems when they become more mature.
So it does usually warrant some intervention, and I'd say

(01:15:57):
that most people tend to go to eat one of
two schools of belief here. One would be to extract
that tooth, because knowing that it's going to create problems,
it's going to get caught on the tooth, We're going
to have an area where there's going to be excessed,
harder that's going to build up. So there's a lot
of veterinarians that will say just to yank that tooth,

(01:16:18):
pull it, get it out of there, be done and
over with it. Now, there's the other possibility of trying
something of a procedure called a vital bolepotomy. Basically, it's
the equivalent of cutting off part of the crown of
the tooth and kind of sealing it up so it's shorter,
it's still there, we're not really damaging that riot structure.
Those are I'd say that probably two more common approaches.

(01:16:41):
You can do braces and you can try to restore
that bite. I don't know that a lot of veterinary
dentists are really big fans of that, but there are
some that will pursue that. But just knowing that that's
just a future problem waiting to happen, and you know,
I would probably say yank and that tooth to be
the best and easiest solution that I could tell you

(01:17:03):
to do.

Speaker 33 (01:17:03):
What I have read about is that sometimes this tooth
evidently is as long in the gum area as it
is hanging down, and that it can interfere with her
sinus cavities or something exactly.

Speaker 11 (01:17:16):
Yeah, And actually the way that any of those teeth
on the upper jaw go is that there is it's
kind of like an iceberg. So what you see on
the outsiders outside is only part of that tooth, and
the deeper part goes up and it does penetrate part
of the sinus. So yeah, and when it's abnormally positioned,
you're going to have more potential for problems there. So
when when we extract a tooth like that, we know

(01:17:38):
we got to take out what we see and what
we don't see on that tooth. And if that tooth
is removed fully and completely, and that can be done,
you know, with your veterinarian with the benefit of X
rays where they take little digital X rays of the teeth,
just like when you go to the dentist and you
put that bite film in your mouth. Okay, we do
that for dogs, but they're generally asleep and sit still,
and we do those same kind of trays and that'll

(01:18:00):
help to ensure that that tooth gets removed.

Speaker 33 (01:18:03):
Are as leaving it go? Is her teeth? Would her
teeth be fully formed?

Speaker 16 (01:18:07):
Now?

Speaker 33 (01:18:07):
Are they going to get longer? Because it's kind of
like it's funny because we call her her nickname is
Elvis because she kind of looks like she's got that
you know, when when she's she's either got done eating
or she's getting a treaty or something, and then she'll
look at you and then she gets that tooth caught
on her gum, and so I didn't know if that

(01:18:28):
was if her tooth was fully formed yet, or if
it's still going to grow more in and then it's
going to force those outer teeth out or these are
our third and four Shelley's. We've had two other shell teeth,
and we never had a problem with her teeth, and
they actually came from the same breeder. They are the
great nephews of our eight year old Chelda that we

(01:18:49):
had to put down in June. That was part of
our family. And so now we have two tricolored ones,
and we couldn't decide on just taking one, so we
ended up having brother and sister now instead of just
having one, we have too and mal he is fine.
His seats are beautiful and perfect.

Speaker 11 (01:19:06):
It's this this defect does come up. It's it's actually
technically called the term lance canine. And I think for
for your baby's purposes, you're going to still see some
growth in that tooth, and she's still young enough that
you're going to see it kind of grow even further out,
So you know, definitely, yeah, I sure would. And you

(01:19:26):
know you may have had childers your whole life, but
you know, these kind of things do crop up, and
the kind of any breed, you know, a little problem
can come up, a genetic defect that you never saw before.
If you've brunch an Houser's your whole life. So but yeah,
I think address it and you'll be you'll be on
a good plane and she'll never know the difference without
that tooth in the long run.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Well there you go. It has just flown by once again.
I want to thank Terry, Grimec Stacy and new Teeny
doing good work, both of those gals, guys, and gals
doing great.

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
Uh, it's time for me to go home.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Hey, be sure to check out the website and download
the Animal Radio app for iPhone Android. You can ask
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to the shows. A whole bevy of information and resources
at that app, And then of course check out Doctor
Debbie's books Yorkshire Terriers, Shitsu's Pugs, Mini Schnauzers, How to
Beat Your Dog's Best Friend, available over at Amazon as
a kindle book, And of course we have links to

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everything you've heard over at animal radio dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
Have a great week.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
Bye bye, see ya bye.

Speaker 29 (01:20:33):
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